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  • The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and extinction rates for each lineage and show that diversity dynamics are governed by a lineage tendency of macroevolutionary fitness decline, rather than clade-level processes.

    • Ignacio Quintero
    • Jérémy Andréoletti
    • Hélène Morlon
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  • Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.

    • William E. Feeney
    • James A. Kennerley
    • Damián E. Blasi
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  • Combining fossil-based and molecular calibrations with data on horizontal gene transfer events, the authors develop a time-calibrated phylogeny of Fungi. This timescale, which integrates analytic uncertainties, suggests an older age of crown Fungi (1,401–896 million years ago), as well as a minimum age for ancient interactions involving fungi and the algal ancestors of embryophytes in terrestrial ecosystems (1,253–797 Ma).

    • Lénárd L. Szánthó
    • Zsolt Merényi
    • Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès
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